Github is Gaining Based on Proprietary Data
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2011-06-06 16:25:25 UTC
- Modified: 2011-06-06 16:25:25 UTC
Summary: A real kick in FOSS, courtesy of Black Duck
TWO firms with Microsoft roots appear to have some information, but it might as well be FUD. "[G]ithub is NOT free software," explained Tekk when I mentioned the following news in Identi.ca, "in fact it's an example of why plain gplv3 is a bad idea" (Alexadre Oliva agreed). Basically here is a sample of the news:
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Github is now the most popular open source forge, having surpassed Sourceforge, Google Code and Microsoft's CodePlex in total number of commits for the period of January to May 2011, according to data released today by Black Duck Software. This should probably come as no surprise, but it's good to have data to back assumptions.
The latter of these two is partly funded by Microsoft. Black Duck itself was
founded by a Microsoft employee. It's the same company which was good at taking and turning into proprietary open data from Palamida in an act of shameless ripoff, proceeding to also promote CodePlex after a Microosft deal (payment). Then we have firms like
OpenLogic, headed by a Microsoft guy, continuing to
discourage use
of the GPL and injecting bias into the news with press releases and "advice". These firms like to keep the actual data close to their chest (no opportunity for audit), telling trends based on what one client or another might prefer. Remember what Microsoft said...
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“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model…”
--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
Comments
NotZed
2011-06-07 00:59:55
I wonder where all that Java ends up. The only stuff that seems to be included in fedora is server stuff, frameworks and xml parsers.